up and coming Coyote!

Well it’s been a long time since I have updated, but our internet in the townhouse has been so fucked up I just haven’t gotten to do a lot of internet work. But this weekend was so ridiculously fantastic I can’t not update tonight!

Last night was awesome. We were definitely not planning on doing anything last night. Shannon had to work so me and Brady were going to just go out and eat dinner and run to WalMart and come home and chill. So we decided last minute that we should definitely hit up CiCi’s to eat some really shitty, nasty food that reminded us of home…haha… and then we went to Home Depot and WalMart. Sometime during those errands it occurred to us that we should totally pursue the strip club scene. So we came home and showered and called around and figured out where we wanted to go- Diamond Cabaret. After the drive down to Denver we finally found Rock Bottom (sweet free parking in the deck!) and got settled there. Brady chugged down a pint of Jaegermeister and I took down a few shots of Crown and we were good to go. (Very important considering the cost of drinks in the strip club!) So we took off to find the place, which happened to be about eight blocks or better from the parking deck, with a long trek through the 16th Street Mall. It actually was pretty cool because BeerFest was this weekend, so there were young drunk people all over the place. So we found the strip club and went in, after paying a $10 cover each (not as bad as anticipated) and buying beers that were $5.75 a piece (a little on the side of steep). Well, the girls were fairly hot and Brady totally got a lot of play. I had two different men ask me if I would give them lap dances… yes, as in, they thought I worked there. And when they figured out that I did not, they were like OH my gosh, I’m really sorry! Haha it was actually fairly funny, and to be honest fairly flattering. Brady (very slyly) paid one of the Asian chicks to dance up on me, which was totally entertaining. She leaned in and whispered something to me about giving the boys a show, which we did and got a lot of cheering in response. This club, by the way, has the Amateur Shower. Yes, as in two women from the crowd are invited to get into this caged in shower and soap each other up in front of all the boys who throw money at you and stuff. It was insane. It's so different from the clubs in Virginia! Back home you can't touch the girls at all, not even to give them money. Here, the girls are literally dancing off the stage into your lap and you put the money in their Gstrings and stuff. Anyway, to make a long story short, Brady got a lap dance from some really pretty girl and in the end got her number and a date. Insanity, I tell you, insanity!

Well we left there a little before 1am, with all intentions of just heading home before we a) spent any more money, and b) drank any more. Well on the way, it’s a long story but Brady stopped this guy to ask him if he thought that I was hot enough to be a stripper, to which he responded yes, as long as I had dancing skills. Which I told him I did but he kind of challenged me to prove it, at Coyote Ugly. Well I got really excited because I have wanted to go there FOREVER, and had totally forgotten. So Brady said, why not? So we turned around an ventured back to the 16th St. Mall to find Coyote Ugly. Well we got in, I flirted with the bouncer a little (who, by the way, had huge muscles) and we walked around and checked stuff out. Initially I was not so impressed with the place. The girls weren’t fantastically hot, neither were the guys, and it was a little on the side of boring I thought. I’ll just say that by the end of the night, Brady managed to get me up on the bar dancing. It was a freakin blast. I rocked the place, made friends with some boys, and it was awesome. Loved it. Might look into a job there!

Today was a pretty great day, too. I had a productive morning (even though I didn’t get to sleep till almost 4 and had to get up at 7:30), but I got a lot of stuff done with job searching, cleaning, laundrying, etc. I laid down for lunch around 1 and Brady and I watched some totally cheesy movie, and around 3 got dressed to venture out into Colorado. First we hit up the Coors Brewery in Golden. Let me tell you, driving around here is beautiful! First of all, as you drive westward you eventually are just right there in the mountains. Like, they are right next to you. It’s so weird. But gorgeous! The Coors Brewery was pretty cool- we got lots of free samples, which rocked. The place is huge. They produce around 2 million gallons of beer a day! Ridiculous. Anyways, we walked through the plant and at the end they give you three free samples of whatever- Coors, Coors Light, Killian’s, Blue Moon, a specialty Blue Moon that was pumpkin spice, Zima (four flavors), non alcoholic (if, for whatever reason, you would want that)and a couple others, I think. Then we hit the gift shop and I kind of felt like I couldn’t leave there without buying something, which may not have been an entirely responsible way to spend twenty dollars, but how often will I get to go to the Coors Brewery in Colorado? Never again, probably. So I bought an awesome hat and a bunch of postcards for some of my favorite boys who will appreciate them. So we left there and decided to drive on to Silver Thorn, some little town that Darren (one of the guys we work with) had said was cool. So we just drove and gawked around. The mountains are so awesome. Well we got there and there really wasn’t much to look at, so we decided to find a place to eat. Then things got interesting.

Basically, the only chain in the town was a McDonald’s, and since that was the drunk food we ate after Coyote Ugly last night, we didn’t want that. So we started to narrow down the local stuff. Which is when we stumbled upon “Big Kahuna’s Barbeque”. Yes, it’s true. We ate there. And shockingly, it was AWESOME. Basically, this place is a podunk little motel of some sort. Frightening, yes. Deliverance, possibly. But the bar/restaurant is in a trailer. No lie, an actual quad-wide. Football on four TVs, lots of deer mounted on the walls, and neon beer signs everywhere. But the real kicker was the weird little greenhouse thing behind the trailer/bar. This place had this crazy little pool in it. Seriously. So picture this. We are in the Rocky mountains. It is freezing cold. We have a greenhouse out behind the bar which has heaters in it (because it is too cold for anyone in their right mind to be swimming in this weather) and a swimming pool full of ugly nasty looking green water, which by the water was definitely not chlorinated. Now the people all are drinking in the pool and the lifeguard lady keeps running inside to check up on the score of the Nebraska game and running back out to the pool reporting on how hot the coach is and what the score is. Meanwhile, they all just keep drinking and swimming. So weird. It rocked. Brady bought some barbeque sauce to bring home with us, we ate, and we left. When we were leaving the town [Idaho Springs (or was it Idaho Falls?) Colorado, by the way], we saw that it was 43 degrees. Wow.

So that’s about it for now. We are laying on the couch watching the Tennessee/Florida game, hoping Tennessee gets their asses beaten. We might go out tonight, I’m not sure, I just don’t want to spend much more money! This place is really cool though. Great decision to go forth with this… even if it is 24 hours away from everyone I know. It’s been a very eye opening experience. I feel like I have been so closed minded for 24 years! I guess when you never venture too far out of your comfort zone, you don't have a good grasp on what else is really out there, or how big and beautiful this country really is. I'm glad I've had the chance to do it now.